Today there are only two thousand words... apologies.
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The towering blood qi on the Dragon Slaying Platform did not affect the decree in the slightest; the texture of the green lotus and its pale green luster isolated all other colors besides it. Indeed, they quite matched the daoist's water-mist-like divine light on the platform.
The green lotus drifted down, landing right atop the divine light at the back of the daoist's head, floating and sinking.
Strange to say, as the green lotus descended, the divine light at the back of the daoist's head plunged step by step, whereas water droplets gradually seeped onto the petals of the green lotus, growing increasingly translucent and crystal-clear. Meanwhile, the True Script Dao Rhyme upon the decree also circulated around the void, not merely projecting outward, but as it circulated, drawing inward and gathering together.
Between the gathering and releasing, the daoist's divine light was gradually stripped away and extracted, all transforming into "nourishment" to plunge into the dao realm formed by the Eternal Azure Sky.
In the end, the divine light at the back of his head was left with only an imperceptible sliver; in reality, it was already completely beyond the daoist's control, remaining solely as the foundation for the green lotus's sustenance.
Yu Ci had essentially "planted" the green lotus upon the dao foundation of the daoist, using the power of the True Script Dao Rhyme to forcefully suppress and absorb it.
Through long years of cultivation, with his dao foundation changing hands in a single day, far from being angry, the daoist showed great joy. Though still prostrate upon the Dragon Severing Stone, he laughed aloud:
*"The Shangqing Yang Clan has unworthy descendants like this. We behead them, yet welcome a chance at revival; even if the dao perishes,